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Paulina Guzik is the International Editor for OSV News.

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Pope Leo XIV greets people at the conclusion of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Jan. 7, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

As consistory begins, so does symbolic transition from Francis to Leo

Paulina Guzik|Jan 7, 2026|4 Min Read

Polish pilgrims from Torun: from left, Iwona, Wioletta and Kasia, are seen on a Jan. 6, 2026 photograph on St. Peter's Square, at the conclusion of the Jubilee Year of Hope. What really visibly stayed with the faithful after the Jan. 6 Epiphany Mass was Pope Leo's urge to keep the church alive. "If we do not reduce our churches to monuments, if our communities are homes, if we stand united and resist the flattery and seduction of those in power, then we will be the generation of a new dawn," the pope said. (OSV News photo/Paulina Guzik)

As jubilee year ends, the faithful heed Pope Leo's call to keep the church alive

Paulina Guzik|Jan 6, 2026|5 Min Read

Schoolchildren from St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Nigeria, pose for a photo at the Niger State Government House Dec. 8, 2025, after being freed from captivity following their abduction by gunmen Nov. 21. (OSV News photo/Marvellous Durowaiye, Reuters)

World

From Nigeria to Belarus, 2025 marks a grim year for religious freedom

Paulina Guzik|Dec 30, 2025|8 Min Read

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong Catholic and media entrepreneur, second from right, is pictured with his family Augustin, front, and in back from left, Teresa, Claire, and Sebastien. Following his Dec. 15, 2025, conviction under Hong Kong's draconian national security law, Lai faces the possibility of life in prison. For his daughter Claire, the trial of her father revealed Lai is first and foremost a man of unbroken faith, who trusts in the Lord in times of the impossible. (OSV News/courtesy Claire Lai)

World

Daughter of Jimmy Lai: Don't let my father become a martyr for truth and for freedom

Paulina Guzik|Dec 19, 2025|9 Min Read

Jimmy Lai's wife, Teresa Lai, son Shun Yan and Cardinal Joseph Zen arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building in Hong Kong, China, Dec. 15, 2025, for the verdict in the trial of Jimmy Lai, a prominent Hong Kong Catholic, philanthropist and media mogul. Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.(OSV News photo/Lam Yik, Reuters)

World

Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai convicted of national security offenses

Paulina Guzik|Dec 15, 2025|5 Min Read

Jimmy Lai, a prominent Hong Kong Catholic, philanthropist and media mogul, is pictured in Hong Kong May 29, 2020. As reports spread that U.S. President Donald Trump appealed directly to China's Xi Jinping to free jailed Lai when they met in South Korea Oct. 30, 2025, American theologian George Weigel told OSV News that Lai's "witness to human dignity and to basic human rights is an expression of his Catholic faith." (OSV News photo/Tyrone Siu, Reuters)

World

Vatican should join Trump's efforts for Jimmy Lai's release, says Catholic writer

Paulina Guzik|Nov 12, 2025|6 Min Read

Palestinians collect aid supplies from trucks that entered the Gaza Strip, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza City, Oct. 12, 2025. (OSV News photo/Ramadan Abed, Reuters)

World

Gaza pastor reflects on 'tsunami' of destruction after historic deal

Paulina Guzik|Oct 13, 2025|6 Min Read

Valeria Vargas Valverde, left, reading the universal prayer, and Antonia Salzano, St. Carlo Acutis' mother, are seen Sept. 7, 2025, at the canonization Mass of St. Carlo and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati in a combination photo. Valverde was healed from severe head trauma through the intercession of now-St. Carlo, after her mother prayed at the tomb of the young teen. Her recovery, which her doctors called medically inexplicable, was the second miracle needed for Acutis’ canonization. (OSV News photo/Vatican News, Reuters)

Faith

At canonization Mass, two mothers stand out as giants of confidence in God

Paulina Guzik|Sep 8, 2025|5 Min Read

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks to reporters at the Vatican Sept. 19, 2024. The cardinal confirmed July 3, 2025, the Vatican has officially named a panel of judges for the canonical trial of Father Marko Rupnik, the disgraced Slovenian priest and artist accused of abusing more than two dozen women. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)

Vatican officially names panel of judges for canonical trial of Father Rupnik

Paulina Guzik|Jul 3, 2025|4 Min Read

Father Thomas Joseph White, the American rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, is seen May 12, 2025, at the university, also known as the Angelicum. He is holding the doctoral dissertation of the future Pope Leo XIV, which was finalized in 1985 and published two years later. Father White was at St. Peter's Square with hundreds of thousands of people when white smoke rose out May 8 of the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel announcing the election of a new pope. (OSV News photo/courtesy Angelicum)

Angelicum rector: Pope's election 'greatest mercy God has ever shown on Catholic Church in America'

Paulina Guzik|May 13, 2025|10 Min Read

Cardinals exchange a sign of peace while concelebrating Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 29, 2025, on the fourth day of the "novendiali" -- nine days of mourning for Pope Francis marked by Masses. (CNS photo/Chris Warde-Jones)

Challenges the new pope will face – and the qualities experts say he'll need

Paulina Guzik|May 1, 2025|8 Min Read

Rudolf, from Slovakia, center, was once homeless but now has a stable job and can stand on his own two feet thanks to the help he got from Pope Francis and his almoner, Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, right. Cardinal Krajewski and his fellow Pole Cardinal Grzegorz Rys are pictured with Rudolf April 25, 2025, as they were leaving Cardinal Krajewski's apartment at the Vatican to head to the general congregation of cardinals. (OSV News photo/Paulina Guzik)

Rome's needy bid farewell to pope who lifted them up from misery

Paulina Guzik|Apr 25, 2025|4 Min Read

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